Koolaid Cupcakes, Diaper Cakes and Bears, OH MY!

Yesterday was Saturday.  It was my designated baking day.  At 8 am, I got up, took a shower and cut my hair.  Just the bangs, this time.

I have a problem.  I'm an emotional hair-cutter.  When I feel bored, stymied or otherwise strongly emotional, I'll start thinking that I should cut my hair.  I get the idea in my head, and it sticks there, more effectively bouncing around than "Call me, Maybe"  Wow, I'd never seen the video.  Can he come mow my lawn, please?  Anyway, I've been feeling restless and insecure lately, and convinced a haircut was exactly what I needed in my life.

So, I went to cut my hair on my way into the shower, only I stopped, right before I actually sawed into my hair and decided I'd just try to trim the bangs for a while.  True to me fashion, I cute them too short and now am irritated with them.

But, the need to cut my hair is mostly gone.  (Except, I'd look so cute with just below my chin chunky layers...)

And after that, It was time to head out to church to start on the epic task of diaper cakes for unwed mothers.  Saying unwed mothers always makes me think of RENT.  "Remind her those unwed mothers in Harlem need her legal help, too!"

You're looking at her bangs, aren't you?  They're like... 80s miniskirt short

Anyway, our women's group meets once a month to do good things, and this month, our good thing is helping to facilitate a baby shower for 15 unwed mothers, whom I believe are all under the age of 24.  According to the charities website, they also offer support for the father's to help them face and deal with the responsibility of the babies.  Good stuff.

So, when we were originally talking about helping to throw a baby shower for these girls, a majority of whom are not being supported by their parents, I said "I'll make diaper cakes!" because, I like diaper cakes.  They're cute.  And I made a couple before, as gifts.  See:

This pink one was a gift for a coworker having a baby girl.  I'm still super impressed by how beautiful it turned out.  It's like... gorgeous, right?  Pin it or something.  I took the picture with a really nice camera, too, that caught the nuance of all the tulle.







This blue one was for my friend, Jessica's baby shower.  I didn't have a good camera, so all the adorable baby blue tulle doesn't show.  But it was super cute!

So, I was like "I'll make 25 diaper cakes!" because I was thinking I'm superwoman.


But somehow, during planning and translation, it ended up that the women's group itself would make the diaper cakes.  And the 25 also dropped to 15.

So, we asked our congregation to bring diapers for the cakes.  We ended up with 2000 diapers in size one and two.  And then, we had a "workship" activity (If you're interested in what "workship" means, tweet @mikecelebrating for an enthusiastic answer) where the entire congregation rolled the diapers in rubber bands (An integral part of the diaper caking process.)  Which, thank goodness.  If my ORIGINAL PLAN had gone through, where each woman in the group did thier own thing, I would have been rolling diapers for at least 4 days straight, and then assembling them, whilst speaking in profanities in 3 different languages.  (I usually only know the bad words in any language that's not English).

Thank GOD things did not go according to my plan.  Instead, a group of about 40-50 people rolled 2000 diapers in about 15 minutes.  And then, a group of 6-10 women gathered to do the crafty parts.

Without these women... this would never have happened:

On Display and Safe from harm above the cabinets in our ministry center

Seriously?  HOW CUTE ARE THESE CAKES?  The bears are the best.  Aunt Kat found them, and I want to snuggle them because they remind me of Joaquin Phoenix in Brother Bear.  And honestly, Joaquin Phoenix always inspires me to hug. 

Bear hug!

I'm lying here, waiting for a hug from Robyn

And so, that is what I did with my Saturday.  I ASSEMBLED with some other women (yes, avengers reference) to do something awesome.

So, today, I decided to bake all laid back style and what not... With Koolaid Cupcakes.

What are Koolaid Cupcakes?  I'm glad you asked.  Cupcakes with no redeeming nutritional value Whatsoever.  And AWESOMELY DELICIOUS.

First, you mix the cake mix.  I used a white cake mix.  I straight up didn't feel like being creative, I just wanted a little piece of damn cake, so don't judge my shortcakes, or tell me i'm not really an artist.  I never pretended to be one. 

After you do the cake mix, you add one half of a package of koolaid. Do not be tempted by blogs and websites that say the whole package.  They lie.

The other half of the package goes into the frosting.  This is classic white frosting.

BAKE!

FROST!  And then I topped with green and purple colored sugar.

The cake is a sweet cherry flavor with a hint of sour and the frosting is a tart cherry with just enough sweet not to be too gross.  It was freaking perfect.












And now, my friends, I bid you farewell.  For it is BEER SOIREE night.  And I have a lot of drinking to do.  (Follow us: www.facebook.com/SNBTS)

:o)
Robyn